# SiteCheck Trade & Energy – EU VAT Rates

> SiteCheck Trade & Energy – EU VAT Rates is a paid API for AI agents from api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns standard and reduced EU VAT rates for a specific member state on a given date, sourced from the ibericode/vat-rates open dataset on GitHub.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/logistics/cross-border-ecom-vat?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-trade-energy-eu-vat-rates-6edbb764
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-fki8Nf5TeSmBmEarNxtE

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability sitecheck-trade-energy-eu-vat-rates-6edbb764
```

Example prompt: What are the standard and reduced VAT rates in Finland right now? I need the rates as of today from the EU member state dataset.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, programmatic lookup of EU VAT rates (standard or reduced) for a specific member state and date, especially for cross-border e-commerce pricing, invoicing, or compliance checks. Prefer it for lightweight, low-cost lookups against a well-known open dataset. Do not use it when you need official EU TEDB data, IOSS registration guidance, de minimis rules, or VAT rates for non-EU jurisdictions.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid country code (not a recognised 2-letter EU member state code) results in an error response
- Date formatted incorrectly (not YYYY-MM-DD) may return an error or default to today
- Country not found in the ibericode dataset may return empty or null rates
- Dataset may be out of date if the community-maintained GitHub source has not been updated for recent legislative changes
- Does not cover non-EU countries or territories with special VAT arrangements
- Does not include IOSS registration rules or de minimis thresholds

## How this service works

Pay-per-call logistics, shipping, trade and energy data tools for AI agents, from official and public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.

## Output

A JSON object containing the standard and any reduced VAT rate(s) (e.g. reduced1, reduced2) for the requested EU country, the date queried, the effective-from date of those rates, the source URL (GitHub dataset), the dataset version number, a checkedAt timestamp, and an exceptions array for any special cases.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "country"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Date YYYY-MM-DD (default today)"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "EU member state, 2-letter code, e.g. FI, DE, ES"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "date": "2026-10-19",
  "rates": {
   "reduced1": 10,
   "reduced2": 13.5,
   "standard": 25.5
  },
  "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ibericode/vat-rates/master/vat-rates.json",
  "country": "FI",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:38:03.620Z",
  "exceptions": [],
  "effectiveFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "datasetVersion": 4
 }
}
```

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